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Before & After | Minimalist Entryway | Tampines

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  • Minimalist
  • HDB (BTO)
  • ~1,000 sqft
  • 3 br
  • Couple Living with Kids
  • Hello hello everyone from @chanceuponchanshome! Our second post on our home transformation will be on our entryway. We took videos of us rolling the pineapple but not photos. Hence, please pardon the lack of proper “before” photos! The highlight of our entryway is our laminate selection and concealment of the unsightly bomb shelter door! With that, we added in a shoe shelf and a small settee :) Read on to find out more!
  • Took a photo after our renovation started and you can tell from here that our entryway is long and narrow, with the bomb shelter door in the way 😅 I thought this layout was quite common as my parents had the same layout. But apparently, it’s quite uncommon now? Hahahaa Anyhoooow, our main idea was to conceal the bomb shelter right at the entrance of our home. Back in my parents’ place, if we don’t lock the door shut, strong winds would force the door open and it created havoc, such as door suddenly swinging open and hitting the wall beside it. We thought that was quite dangerous as well since we have a young child at home!
  • Since we were covering the whole length at the entryway, with that much carpentry, we might as well build in a shoe cabinet and a niche.
  • The height of our built in shoe cabinet fits 5 layers of shoes, so we added a niche above. We didn’t want shoes to be above our shoulder height because of many reasons, and having adequate shoe cabinet space allows us to practise mindful shoe buying. Mrs here doesn’t buy high heels, so there’s no worrying of high heels not fitting into the shoe shelf.
  • We also hacked the opposite wall connecting the entryway to the kitchen to make a half wall gallery view. We get some west sun from the kitchen windows, thus this move actually allows a lot more light into the entryway!
  • This is what I mean by opening up the space. We could only do this because our unit is top floor and corner unit, thus no one can accidentally look right into our home. 🙈 In addition, our ID suggested to install the glass flushed to the kitchen wall, thus giving us a small ledge at the entryway to display or put items, minimally, necessarily! If you’ve read on our kitchen before & after post, you also know that the Mrs cooks behind this glass, thus we didn’t install hood and kept the visuals clean and minimal.
  • Back to the bomb shelter side, the exposed bomb shelter door if we didn’t conceal it.
  • After concealment 😍😍😍 We did a tic-tac door to hide the bomb shelter! It’s so magical everytime people come to our house, they wonder where’s our bomb shelter or how to open the door! 🤭 To be honest I’m not sure if there’s a better way to do the tic-tac door because when it opens up fully, only a skinny person can cross over between the living room and entrance 😂 but we don’t store daily used items in the bomb shelter so it’s not much of an issue to us! We are only required to open the door so wide when we want to move big items in and out of the bomb shelter.
  • Another “before” POV of our bomb shelter and entryway from the kitchen.
  • After 😍😍😍 We installed recessed handles across all carpentry to maintain sleekness and minimalism. And nope, kids have no issues using recessed handles, if you’re wondering!
  • Daytime view of our shoe cabinet, niche and other cabinets.
  • LED lights at the niche for a cozy ambience.
  • Last but not least, we installed a suspended settee with a drawer to keep socks. We’re also allowed to have one pair of shoe each that we want to park underneath the settee, for easy access daily.
  • We curved our settee to connect it to the main door so our little door flap still can open up.
  • 13 January
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